Top 5 Art Exhibitions of 2012 “Home: Public or Private?” 6018North “Martin Creed Plays Chicago,” Museum of Contemporary Art Luis Romero, Roots & Culture Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago Cultural Center “The Great Refusal: Taking On New Queer Aesthetics,” SAIC Sullivan Galleries —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Photo Shows of 2012 Vadim Gushchin, Jennifer Norback Christopher Schneberger, Printworks Lena Herzog, Maya Polsky Patty Carroll, Chicago Cultural Center Melanie Schiff, Kavi Gupta —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Art/Design Crossovers of 2012 Dock 6 Design and Art Series Chicago Design Museum Manifold Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Museum of Contemporary Art David Salkin, Peregrine Program —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Escapes of 2012 ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, Wisconsin Summer Forum for Inquiry & Exchange, New Harmony, Indiana Harold Arts at the Haven Tree Farm, Chesterhill, Ohio “Chicago’s Twelve,” Garfield Park Conservatory Roger Brown residence, New Buffalo, Michigan —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 New Art Galleries of 2012 Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Aspect Ratio Queer Thoughts Bert Green Fine Art The Franklin —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Exhibitions You Didn’t See in 2012 Mariano Chavez, AdventureLand Jess Dugan, Schneider Gallery All Good Things Become Wild and Free, Carthage College 24/25, New Capital Benjamin Bellas, Slow Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Signs in 2012 that Chicago’s Art Scene Is Becoming Occupied by the European Union Solveig Øvstebø Dieter Roelstraete Monika Szewczyk Theaster Gates and Naomi Beckwith pose for Burberry Germany is the new New York —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Materials of 2012 Hot glue Laser-cut anything Amethysts Reclaimed wood Concrete —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Materials that Need a Breather in 2013 Mannequin hands Triangles Fake gems Ceramics Trompe l’oeil painting —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 People You See at Every Art Opening Karsten Lund Derrick Williams Stephanie Burke and Jeriah Hildwine Robin Dluzen Boozehounds —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 People Whose Lives are Possibly Artworks Heather Marie Vernon Theodore Darst Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson Vincent Uribe Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller —Jason Foumberg
